If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Yes, my friends, join me in my faith in this Dionysiac life and the rebirth of tragedy.

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand, one should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.